In article <v01520d03af7742837ba8@[192.73.4.201]>, Paul Schlosser
<schlosser at ciit.org> writes
>>>Except it doesn't apply to non-USA citizens.....
>>Herb
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>>Herbert M Sauro
>>Hmmm. I'm at home and don't have it "on" me, but I thought
>that it did. You may need to be working in the US though.
>>-Paul
But presumably you have to have a US base with a US 'godfather' to 'get'
you in. I'm not cristising in any way US funding and its great to see
that science gets funded at least somewhere in the world. It's just
depressing to see the sort of initiatives that are available in the US
and next to nothing in the UK, and what does appear is, in my opinion
must likely destined for the 'boys'. Some years ago I applied to the
Santa Fe institute for a job since I also have an interest in alife and
got back a very nice letter with application form, unfortunately they
had a list of referees which you had to have a letter from to get
accepted and of course I didn't know any of the names on the list so I
couldn't really apply. But there do seem to be a lot more opporunities
in the US compared to the UK.
We had a TV program here in the UK a month or so ago discussing UK
science funding and one of the examples they had was Prof Kroto from
Sussex who was one of the discoverers of Buckminsterfullerene. He'd
applied for a grant to continue his work and the day he received the
Nobel prize for his work was also the day that his grant was rejected!
Interestingly 2 weeks or 2 months later (can't remember which) the grant
awarding body changed its mind and gave him the money.....They also
quoted some figures, in the last ten years, Kroto had received one half
million pounds in support whereas his partner, Smalley (I think that's
what his name was) has received half a million every year for the last
10 years.
Herbert
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email: HSauro at fssc.demon.co.uk
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